Tag: Nicole Kidman

Every comedy director secretly has dreams of becoming a dramatist. Adam McKay turned his humorous lens to politics with the excellent Big Short and the insufferable Vice. Peter Farrelly tried to solve racism with Green Book (to mixed results)...

Last Sunday, Big Little Lies concluded its second, and potentially final season. It was a season that should not have happened – they had completed the book in the first miniseries, the A-list actresses all had new projects lined up, and there...

One of the more underrated musicals out of this year’s Tony lineup was The Prom. Written by The Drowsy Chaperone’s Bob Martin, and with music and lyrics by The Wedding Singer’s Matthew Sklar and Chad Beguelin, The Prom has been a critical and...

Leave it to a Greek to deliver the perfect update to the Greek tragedy. Director Yorgos Lanthimos has been delivering us dark and twisted fables for years, starting with 2010’s breakthrough nightmare Dogtooth and continuing through last year’s...

The 70th Cannes Film Festival officially came to a close this past Sunday, and while insiders claim that his festival was “a bit of a dud,” my outsider’s perspective thinks this may have been one of the best festivals in years.

Last Sunday, twenty actors and actresses will be entering the Dolby Theatre with dreams to take home an Oscar. Whether it is their first, second, or third that they have won in their lifetimes, one thing is certain: they have worked their butts...

The most common films released in the fall festival season are what I lovingly refer to as “old people dramas.” These are the films hoping to make an Oscar push that are usually focused on history, costumes, and either romance or drama. They are...